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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Beaver County, PA) According to a recent joint announcement from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr. and Representatives Roman Kozak, Josh Kail and Rob Matzie, twenty-two Beaver County communities are to receive over $4.6 million in grants from horse racing revenues to pay for a variety of municipal infrastructure and public safety projects. This funding is distributed by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, which is an independent agency of the Department of Community and Economic Development and their amounts and locations. According to the Beaver County Times, here is the list of communities that received this funding and how much they earned:
- Aliquippa Municipal Water Authority: $300,000 to cover construction, engineering and administration costs for phase 1 of sanitary sewer defect repairs in the City of Aliquippa;
- Ambridge Borough: $203,440 to pay for construction, engineering and administration costs for critical road infrastructure projects and another $100,000 to purchase municipal equipment and vehicles for the borough;
- Ambridge Water Authority: $200,000 to pay for construction, engineering and maintenance costs for the Maplewood Avenue water main replacement project in Ambridge Borough;
- Beaver Borough: $116,268 to pay for the purchase and installation of 12 pedestrian crossing systems;
- Beaver County, for the Neighborhood North Museum of Play: $50,000 to cover construction and engineering costs to renovate the former News Tribune Building as a permanent home for the museum;
- Beaver Falls City: $150,000 to purchase new police vehicles;
- Center Township: $205,335 towards construction, engineering and administrative costs to renovate Sherwood Park and Sylvan Crest Park;
- Center Township Sanitary Authority: $333,265 to cover construction, engineering and administrative costs to make upgrades to the township’s sanitary sewer system;
- Center Township Water Authority: $389,318 for site preparation, engineering and administrative costs for improvements to the township’s water distribution system;
- Center Township Water Authority: $500,000 for construction, engineering and administrative costs to replace the Bunker Hill water storage tank;
- Conway Borough, for the Beaver Valley Regional Police Department: $300,000 to purchase six police vehicles to use in Baden, Conway and Freedom boroughs and Rochester Township;
- Darlington Township: $90,399 to purchase two new police vehicles;
- Economy Borough: $150,000 to install a permanent restroom at the borough’s municipal park;
- Franklin Township: $300,000 to pay for the acquisition of 392 acres of the Hereford Manor Lakes property;
- Harmony Township: $50,000 to cover engineering and administrative costs for the township’s preliminary landslide investigation project (includes a topographic survey, geotechnical investigations and a utility investigation);
- Industry Borough Municipal Authority: $194,832 to pay for construction and engineering costs to improve the borough’s chlorine injection system;
- Monaca Borough: $61,788 to purchase and install 10 vehicle-mounted camera systems and purchase 15 body camera systems;
- New Brighton Borough, for the New Brighton Volunteer Fire Department: $57,404 to purchase a new utility/command vehicle for the department;
- New Sewickley Township: $126,000 to replace the flat roof on the township’s municipal building;
- North Sewickley Township: $30,000 to purchase body and dash cameras for the police department;
- Ohioville Borough Municipal Authority: $180,000 to cover construction and engineering costs to build a garage for the authority;
- Patterson Township: $302,197 to pay for construction, engineering and administrative costs to make stormwater improvements along Bonnieview Drive.